Pipe-hanger.



No. 66|,so4. x Patented mw. la, |900.

P. GRAB LER.

, PIPE HANGER.

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Patented Nov. I3, |900. Pi. GLBJiBiER.

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Renewed Apr. 21, 1900.)

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INVENTO? W/ T/VESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER GRABLER, OF MANSFIELD, OHIO.

PIPE-HANGER.

lSPE(.fIFIfjA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,604, dated November 13, 1900.

Application led November 2, 1898. Renewed April 2l, 1900. Serial No. 13,769. LN) model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, PETER GRABLER, a citilzen of the United States of America, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richmond and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pipe Hangers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. i

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in pipe hangers or hooks.

One object of my invention is to provide a hook or hanger which when placed in position on the wall will securely hold the pipe in the desired manner.

A further object of my invention is to provide a hook or hanger of this character with means to prevent the splitting of the wood to which it is adapted to be secured when the screw or other fastening means is inserted through the supporting extension of the hook or hanger.

A further object-of my invention is in my method of obtaining a proper bend for a pair of barbs which are formed integral with the upper end of the supporting extension of the hook or hanger, which consists in bending a strip of metal forming the hook or hanger in the desired manner before the cutting of the barbs.

A further object of my invention lies in the fact of the saving of metal when forming my improved hook or hanger, as the securing end of the pipe is the portion which is cut away from between the ends of the converging barbs of the preceding hanger formed from the strip of metal.

Briefly described, my invention consists of an elongated flat strip of suitable metallic material having a pair of converging barbs formed integral with the supporting extension and having formed integral with its lower end the securing or fastening support for the pipe.

My invention finally consists in the novel arrangement to be hereinafter more specically described, and particularly pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had tothe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference indicate the corresponding parts throughout the several views thereof, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved pipe hanger or hook. Fig. 2 is a side View, partly in section, of my improved pipe hanger or hook, showing the securing end fastened to the pipe in dotted line. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of myimproved pipe hanger or hook, showing the pipe secured thereto in dotted line. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a strip of metal such as is used for making my improved hanger, showing one end thereof formed into the support for the pipe and showing in dotted lines the manner in which the barbs are cut and the manner in which the supporting` end of the succeeding hanger is shaped.

Referring now to the drawings by referencenumerals, l indicates the supporting extension, having an aperture 2 formed therein to receive the screw or other fastening means.

To construct my improved pipe-hanger, I provide an elongated metallic strip which may be of the desired thickness of metal. Before the hanger is bent to the shape orform in which itis employedIcutorformthefastening-barbs 3 and 4 and also shape the end 7 of the succeeding hanger by means of a die, with which the strip is cut. This die is so shaped as to form the inner edge of the barbs at an incline to the outer edge thereof or to the outer edge of the strip, the width of the opening made between the barbs at their base being less than the width of the said opening at their free ends, thus making the barbs substantially Wedgeshaped in form. The end 7 ofthe hanger,it will be observed, is of the-same shape as the space between the barbs from which it has been out by the die, and after the strip has been so cut it is bent to form the vertical supporting eX- tension 1 and gradually curved into the supporting hook or support 5, which receives the pipe 6. This supporting end ofthe hanger may be shaped, as shownin Fig. 4t of the drawings, before the barbs are cut, if desired. IV preferably provide the extension l with an aperture 2 a short distance below thebase of the barbs for the reception of a screwforother fastening means by which the supporting eX- tension may be held firmly against the wall. By reason of the peculiar shape of the barbs and the manner of cutting the same, consequently shaping and. reducing the end 7, this end may be readilyb'ent down upon: the pifpe as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings, after the pipehas been placed therein,

thus securely retaining the same in its positi'on. Owing to the substantially wedge shape into which the barbs areformet thellnarrner of cutting the strip these barbs will not have the saine action upon the grain. of. the wood into which they are driven as would bev the case were both edges of the barbs on a plane; but the inclinededge of the barbs will serve to compress the grain of the woodI between the barbs` as the latter are. drivenl im..

and the splitting of the Wood thereby obviated. This compressing of the grain of. the wood also prevents the splitting, of the latter' when the screw or ether fastening means is inserted through the 49er-ture 2 and into. the wood, as this screw will enter. the wood `at al point where the grain has been compres-sed. by the barbs to a sufficient eXtentte preventr the splitting ofthe same.

It will be observed that in. thus: forming a, number of the hangers from theflat elongated strip the end 7 of one hanger is. cut from. between the barbsI of a preceding," hangen and that any waste Whatever of themetail is thus obviated.

It will be noted that various, changes may be made in the details of construction, suclt 3 reduced, the other end of thevertical. portion 'having a pair of" barbs formed' integral theref with and; extending atl right angles thereto, said barbs having their inner edges at an incline to their outer. edges: to compress* the L wood between the barbs when derive-n. therein i said; vertical portion having an: aperture unrderneathathebarbstoI receive-festem ng` mean s adaptedlto enter theswood, the-locationof thel said aperture bein-g sfuchg, that the compres-- vsien et thewoed. by the barbs prevents splittin-gi of the; sam-@When the fastening means-is inserted therethrough into the Wood, substantial-Ly as ser forth."

In testimonyl whereof I affix. my signature inthe presence of two,` witnesses..

GRABL111.132` liitnessese:

H. Hw. PA'RLERSoN,V N.. Lr, Boeren 

